I-65 lanes reopen after 7-hour closure

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Firefighters respond after a tanker hauling heptane overturned in the southbound lane of I-65 Thursday, July 3, 2014, just south of the Ind. 43 exit near Battle Ground. Sgt. Kim Riley of Indiana State Police said traffic in both lanes of I-65 would be closed until the highly flammable material can be cleaned up.
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Firefighters respond after a tanker hauling heptane overturned in the southbound lane of I-65 Thursday, July 3, 2014, just south of the Ind. 43 exit near Battle Ground. Sgt. Kim Riley of Indiana State Police said traffic in both lanes of I-65 would be closed until the highly flammable material can be cleaned up.
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Firefighters respond after a tanker hauling heptane overturned in the southbound lane of I-65 Thursday, July 3, 2014, just south of the Ind. 43 exit near Battle Ground. Sgt. Kim Riley of Indiana State Police said traffic in both lanes of I-65 would be closed until the highly flammable material can be cleaned up.
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Firefighters respond after a tanker hauling heptane overturned in the southbound lane of I-65 Thursday, July 3, 2014, just south of the Ind. 43 exit near Battle Ground. Sgt. Kim Riley of Indiana State Police said traffic in both lanes of I-65 would be closed until the highly flammable material can be cleaned up.
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Firefighters respond after a tanker hauling heptane overturned in the southbound lane of I-65 Thursday, July 3, 2014, just south of the Ind. 43 exit near Battle Ground. Sgt. Kim Riley of Indiana State Police said traffic in both lanes of I-65 would be closed until the highly flammable material can be cleaned up.
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Traffic on I-65 comes to a standstill after a tanker hauling heptane overturned in the southbound lane Thursday, July 3, 2014, just south of the Ind. 43 exit near Battle Ground. Sgt. Kim Riley of Indiana State Police said traffic in both lanes of I-65 would be closed until the highly flammable material can be cleaned up.
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Firefighters respond after a tanker hauling heptane overturned in the southbound lane of I-65 Thursday, July 3, 2014, just south of the Ind. 43 exit near Battle Ground. Sgt. Kim Riley of Indiana State Police said traffic in both lanes of I-65 would be closed until the highly flammable material can be cleaned up.
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Firefighters respond after a tanker hauling heptane overturned in the southbound lane of I-65 Friday, July 3, 2014, just south of the Ind. 43 exit near Battle Ground. Sgt. Kim Riley of Indiana State Police said traffic in both lanes of I-65 would be closed until the highly flammable material can be cleaned up.(Photo: John Terhune/Journal & Courier John Terhune/Journal & Courier)Buy Photo

Northbound Interstate 65 opened just before 2 p.m. Thursday, and southbound lanes opened about an hour later.

All lanes were closed for nearly seven hours as emergency and hazardous material crews cleaned up the scene of an overturned tanker sound of the Indiana 43 exit in Battle Ground.

The semi tanker was loaded with 3,000 gallons of heptane, which is a fuel with a low ignition point, according to Indiana State Police Sgt. Kim Riley. Heptane leaked from the tank, according to Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Office.

At 8 a.m., police shut down traffic in both lanes of the interstate to allow crews to offload the fuel before uprighting the tanker. Riley said around 9:15 a.m. that the interstate would be closed for several hours.

The interstate was closed from Indiana 18 in White County to Indiana 25 in Tippecanoe County. The closure has caused congestion along Sagamore Parkway in West Lafayette and Lafayette.

Just before 9 a.m., Tippecanoe County sheriff deputies responded to an accident on Indiana 43 near the ramp to the interstate. The accident involved a car and a van or truck from Purdue University, according to reports from the scene. It appeared the injuries from this accident were minor.